Top 100 Country Music Is Quotes
#1. Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.
Ketch Secor
#2. To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
Etta James
#3. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux
Cody Johnson
#4. Country music is basically one-third a part of Southern blood, the other two being church and sweet tea.
Eve Jagger
#5. I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
Mick Jagger
#6. I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.
Tim McGraw
#7. The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.
Tyler Farr
#8. It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.
Ketch Secor
#9. Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
Ed Sheeran
#10. You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
George Strait
#11. The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#12. A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.
Luke Bryan
#13. A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Willie Nelson
#14. I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
Dolly Parton
#15. I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.
Jason Aldean
#16. Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
Jeff Foxworthy
#17. Country music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul!
Sammy Kershaw
#18. What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
Charley Pride
#19. Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
Kenny Chesney
#20. My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
Taylor Swift
#21. I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.
Ketch Secor
#22. I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.
Tim McGraw
#23. I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
Jenny Lewis
#24. This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
Vince Gill
#25. I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
Jimi Westbrook
#26. The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
Joe Nichols
#27. Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
Neko Case
#28. The sound of the blues, rhythm and blues, country music, is what we lived for, black and white alike. It gave you strength to sit on one of those throbbing Allis-Chalmers tractors all day if you knew you were gonna hear something on the radio or maybe see a show that evening.
Levon Helm
#29. Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.
Robin Zander
#30. Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.
Robert Hilburn
#31. Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.
Henry Purcell
#32. I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me ... real life stories and real life emotions.
Dustin Lynch
#33. Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.
Miranda Lambert
#34. Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
Chris Stapleton
#35. Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.
Utah Phillips
#36. One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.
Randy Houser
#37. My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.
Sue Grafton
#38. I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.
Travis Tritt
#39. Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#40. True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Garth Brooks
#41. Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.
Dionne Warwick
#43. Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Shania Twain
#44. As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
Dick Dale
#45. I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
Luke Bryan
#46. Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.
Ben Mink
#47. I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.
Gretchen Wilson
#48. One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
Suzy Bogguss
#50. Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
Scotty McCreery
#51. Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
Dierks Bentley
#52. Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
Bryan White
#53. Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill
#54. Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
George Strait
#55. One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
St. Vincent
#57. [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [ ... ] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [ ... ] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.
John C. Reilly
#58. I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.
Lindsey Haun
#59. I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
Christian Kane
#60. Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.
Steve Maraboli
#61. I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
Lucy Hale
#62. There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
Miranda Lambert
#63. The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
Robbie Robertson
#64. I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive.
Buzz Osborne
#65. At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.
Willie Nelson
#66. P.S. I'm going to throw an absolutely mind-blowing fact your way. I'm not kidding, either. The country of Uganda is obsessed with Celine Dion. They dedicate entire days to broadcasting her music. They love her that much. Five words. My. Heart. Will. Go. On. Yeah.
Fisher Amelie
#67. I think humans in general, make associations and feel the need to group things together to have a better understanding of them. Though I would say my music is more country in a lot of ways, than it is surfy.
Tristan Prettyman
#68. I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!
Amy Weber
#69. Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.
Joan Jett
#70. The truth is, I think country music ... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.
Lee Brice
#71. Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
John F. Kerry
#72. I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Bing Crosby
#73. I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
Kacey Musgraves
#74. Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
Jerry Jeff Walker
#75. In fact all country music - with its wailing hearts, tearful angst, and neatly trimmed facial hair - is a little too gay for its own good.
Wallace Godfrey
#76. Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
Willie Nelson
#77. My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos ... in this respect this is a savage country.
Frederic Chopin
#78. A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that ... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
Taylor Hicks
#79. In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
Lorin Maazel
#80. I'm pretty open to all music. Its pretty funny because I've spent time in Germany and now I'm in Dallas where Country is a big thing. I used to hate it but now I can actually go through a song.
Steve Purdy
#81. That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.
Shane McAnally
#82. People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.
Elvis Costello
#83. Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Johnny Cash
#84. There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'
Hunter Hayes
#85. Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
Afrojack
#86. In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
Blake Shelton
#87. I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
Landon Liboiron
#88. All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.
Mark Hoppus
#89. I had a dog. Ex-wife took him, and the house."
Is that why you like country music?"
He eased himself our of the closet. "Huh?"
"Just a joke. Sorry about your dog.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#90. You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
Callan McAuliffe
#91. There is Carrie Underwood, of course Miranda Lambert, and Taylor Swift - the three blondes in country music. They inspire me a lot, and just watching them perform and just be superstars is a big inspiration to me and it helps me learn.
Danielle Bradbery
#92. This is real, this is your life in a song ... this is country music.
Brad Paisley
#93. Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.
James Weldon Johnson
#94. Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back
Kenny Chesney
#95. Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
Garth Hudson
#96. Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
K'naan
#97. When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
Chip Esten
#98. The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music ... There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town ... There's so much fun stuff to get in to.
Connie Britton
#99. It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loyal, once you're in their circle, you're in for your entire career. It just really speaks to me. Country music has so much soul and is so heartfelt. I think it's a perfect fit for me.
Lucy Hale
#100. There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.
Miranda Lambert
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